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"By Allah, how _thankful_ he is (_yes, madam, one moment, madam_), how _gladdened_ by the thought that Magid, Magid at least, will, in a matter of four hours, be flying east from this place and its demands, its constant cravings, this place where there exists neither patience nor pity, where the people want what they want _now_, right now (_We've been waiting twenty minutes for the vegetables_), expecting their lovers, their children, their friends, and even their gods to arrive at little cost and in little time, just as table ten expect their tandoori prawns. . . ."
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"Don't be afraid to go slow, only be afraid of standing still."
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"Waiting never makes things easier or less troublesome."
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Personal Development
"Church leaders may get disappointed in ministry if they do not know God's time."
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"The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do."
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"For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting."
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"The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience."
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"If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs."
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"My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man."When the planting's done," I said."Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting.""Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left."
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"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
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"There is a saying that, paper is more patient than man."
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"I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a fatal effect on my self-esteem. When I find myself sitting at dinner next to someone who knows just as much about novels as I do but has somehow also found the mental space to adore and be knowledgeable about the opera, have strong opinions about the relative rankings of Renaissance painters, an encyclopedic knowledge of the English civil war, of French wines--I feel an anxiety that nudges beyond the envious into the existential. How did she find the time?"
Psychology
"You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. 'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition."
Psychology
"Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources."
Life
"Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you."
Creativity
"Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories."
Life
"This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust."
Family
"Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting."
Parenting
"You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality."
Justice
"In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution."
Ethics
"Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time."
Ethics
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